Estranged, by Nemanja Jovanović

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Open facebook page, a note that calls to strike and Biljana, looking through the window

“…under the conditions of modern factory production, by contrast, the average worker is not much more than a replaceable cog in a gigantic and impersonal production apparatus. Where armies of hired operatives perform monotonous and closely supervised tasks, workers have essentially lost control over the process of production, over the products which they produce, and over the relationships they have with each other. As a consequence they have become estranged from their very human nature“Karl Marx (Manuscripts of 1844)

Serbia is going through transition process.

These are my colleagues, journalists, mostly.

Some of them I know and work with, for a decade or so.

They all changed. They all lost their spark. They all lost the human touch.

Transition is taking it’s toll. They are underpaid. They are often, unpaid.

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Nemanja Jovanović

After graduating from the Art Academy, major in Photography, Nemanja worked as a staff photographer
in several Serbian daily newspapers. His photographs were displayed at major republic exhibitions, as
well as in various magazines and agencies, both locally and worldwide.
Nemanja has urge for adrenalin driven situations, and he’s very experienced in working under conflict
circumstances. His passion for life photography and photojournalism always pushes him in the first
rows, closest possible to the action.
Nemanja’s long list of awards includes Grand Prix for best media photography in Serbia in 2009. as
recognized by Press Photo Serbia organization, who awarded him five more times in the past few
years , for his photo reportages in the following categories: In 2009 in Sports, in 2010 in category
Daily life, in 2011 in category Environment and in 2012 in categories Portraits and People. He was awarded by “Vilnius photo circle” international
photojournalistic organization in 2010 and 2011 for his documentary photo stories. He received three
prizes from Status magazine, two of them in 2009 and one in 2012, including Grand Prix for best media
photography in Serbia in 2009.
Nemanja participated in several workshops held by great names in modern photojournalism: Alexander
Zemlianichenko’s lecture during Photocircle festival in Vilnius (Lithuania), in 2010, and Yuri Kozyrev’s
lecture at the same festival in 2011. He was chosen as participant of the workshop with VII agency
photographer Donald Weber in Belgrade, Serbia, and Dirk Jan-Visser workshop supported by World Press Photo in 2010.